The power of feelings
Subtitle: personal meaning in psychoanalysis, gender, and culture
By: Nancy J. Chodorow
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Gender Identity; Subjectivité; Psychanalyse; Psychoanalyse; Subjectivity; Emotions; Cultural Characteristics; Subjectiviteit; Psychological aspects; Sekseverschillen; Psychoanalysis; Physiology
Description: "In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries - Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others - turned to psychoanalysis as a measure of human personal and cultural fulfillment. Now, as we enter a new millennium, Nancy J. Chodorow, well-known feminist theorist and psychoanalyst, takes her place in this line of eminent thinkers and revitalizes their project. Psychoanalysis, she claims, offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of relations with others. Psychoanalytic theory continues centuries of reflection and speculation about the good life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Psychoanalysis. Creating personal meaning: transference, projection, introjection, fantasy; title: The anxieties of uncertainty: reflections on the role of the past in psychoanalytic thinking; title: Gender. Gender as a personal and cultural construction; title: Theoretical gender and clinical gender; title: Culture. Selves and emotions as personal and cultural constructions; title: The psyche in the field; title: Coda on culture: preliminary thoughts on culture in the consulting room; title: Conclusions. Psychoanalytic visions of subjectivity.